The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has already made education up to class V unpaid
The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education will work together to ensure the right to basic minimum education up to class VIII and to make lower secondary level education free.
On Sunday (May 5), these two ministries agreed on the implementation of the commitment stated in the Education Policy-2010 in an inter-ministerial meeting.
The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has already made education up to class V unpaid. At the same time, the government is giving stipend to the students. And 696 government primary schools are running class VIII. Parents spend money in private educational institutions to educate the students of sixth, seventh and eighth classes.
It was informed in the meeting that the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education will work together to implement the political commitment of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s government, to move the basic minimum education right from primary to lower-secondary level.
At present, the dropout rate of students has increased due to various socio-economic and procedural reasons, including the increase in the cost of education for students at the primary, lower secondary and secondary levels. In order to prevent this dropout, the two ministries agreed in the inter-ministerial meeting to provide free or nominal education up to the lower secondary level.
To implement this goal, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education will expand their unpaid education and teaching activities to sixth, seventh and eighth grade. And the Ministry of Education will work to reduce the cost of education in private educational institutions at the lower secondary level to enable students to continue their education.
The meeting chaired by Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury was also attended by State Minister for Education Begum Shamsun Nahar, State Minister for Primary and Mass Education Rumana Ali, eminent educationist and retired chairman of Computer Science and Engineering Department of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology Professor Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Computer Science. and Engineering (CSE) Department former chairman Dr. Mohammad Kaykobad, Director of Education and Research Institute (IER) of Dhaka University (DU). Md. Abdul Halim, Secretary of Secondary and Higher Education Department, Soleman Khan, Secretary of Technical and Madrasah Education Department. Farid Uddin Ahmed, Secretary of Ministry of Primary Education and Mass Education Farid Ahmed, Director General of Secondary and Higher Education Professor Nehal Ahmed and Director General of Primary Education Shah Rezwan Hayat along with senior government officials.
